Wrote that a year ago:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/TemplateLink/
But, as with all my extensions, I don't have the time and will to push
24/7, and noone else cares, so...
Magnus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Conrad Irwin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That would actually be a great idea. If mediawiki supported urls
> something like [[Special:Template/Cool|Alphabet|Grandplan|NamedParam=Amazing]]
> which would produce the same output as
> {{Cool|Alphabet|Grandplan|NamedParam=Amazing}} but on a standalone
> page then I feel that could have a lot of uses.
>
> Another related idea would be to allow the &preload= parameter to have
> variable substitution - that way creating page content remotely could
> also be made easier.
>
> Yours, hoping someone else has the time to do this.
> Conrad
>
> 2008/11/10 Nikola Smolenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Annabel wrote:
>>> I guess it is a good idea to contact user Beetstra on the English
>>> wikipedia. He has been busy in the past with writing a plugin for mediawiki
>>> for this task. It seemed a hard job to implement such a thing practically
>>> in mediawiki. I do not know the current state of his project, but you may
>>> want to ask him (if there is not a direct chance that it will be
>>> implemented and included in mediawiki, I guess that the code could be
>>> relatively easy converted to a toolserver tool)
>>
>> In fact, I think it would be easy to generalize this into a system where
>> you can pair any page (template) with any parameter; that could even be
>> used to replace Special:BookSources . I already have something similar.
>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Guillaume Paumier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: Toolserver mailing list <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2008 8:19:43 PM
>>> Subject: [Toolserver-l] Simple Geohack-like tool for CAS numbers
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> CAS numbers are used to identify chemical compounds [1]. Someone on
>>> fr.wp has created a template for CAS numbers; it uses the CAS number
>>> as a parameter and outputs some links to several resources/databases
>>> [2]. The thing is, although these links might be useful, the articles
>>> aren't really the good place for them.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if someone from this list would be willing to write a
>>> simple tool on the toolserver à la GeoHack. The tool would do exactly
>>> what the template is doing right now, i.e. it would check the validity
>>> of the input and would output a few links [3]. The template would then
>>> be modified to simply link to this tool.
>>>
>>> This should be pretty easy (I think) and it would avoid displaying all
>>> these links inside the articles. Anyone interested?
>>> Many thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_registry_number
>>> [2] example: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide ; look at "N°
>>> CAS" in the infobox and click on the [+] symbol to expand the
>>> template.
>>> [3] current code of the template :
>>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:CAS&action=edit
>>>
>>
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